The idea was, I think, related to network diagrams that showed everything outside of your own border as a cloud icon. (IE; very foggy and unknown).
It never really made much sense, but normally what seems to separate a MSP/service or colocation is the availability of managed object storage and an abstraction on the network.
However, now it seems to have been coopted and now means basically anything that isn't in your closet. However we ran many physical machines we paid for in colocation facilities, and when AWS was coming up there was an understanding that "that's not what the cloud is" among the masses. Despite managing them over the internet. So, a fuzzy term has become more fuzzy.
The idea was, I think, related to network diagrams that showed everything outside of your own border as a cloud icon. (IE; very foggy and unknown).
It never really made much sense, but normally what seems to separate a MSP/service or colocation is the availability of managed object storage and an abstraction on the network.
However, now it seems to have been coopted and now means basically anything that isn't in your closet. However we ran many physical machines we paid for in colocation facilities, and when AWS was coming up there was an understanding that "that's not what the cloud is" among the masses. Despite managing them over the internet. So, a fuzzy term has become more fuzzy.
So much for us being "engineers".